‘Crisis of Unseen Scale,’ Experts Warn Deaths in China Easily in Millions

An ambulance driver walks into the busy emergency area of a hospital on January 13, 2023, in Shanghai, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

An expert has dubbed China’s COVID management as a “crisis of a scale unseen since Mao” in regard to its death toll.

In an opinion piece published on Jan. 5, sinologist and military adviser Ben Lowsen warned that Chinese citizens potentially face the country’s largest mass-death event since the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961.